List of Famous people born in Alagoas, Brazil
Roberto Firmino
Roberto Firmino Barbosa de Oliveira is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team.
Pepe
Kepler Laveran de Lima Ferreira ComM, known as Pepe, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Porto and the Portugal national team.
Marta
Marta Vieira da Silva, commonly known as Marta, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for the Orlando Pride in the National Women's Soccer League and the Brazil national team as a forward. With 17 goals, she holds the record for most goals scored at FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments. Moreover, she is the first footballer of either gender to score at five World Cup editions, a feat matched by Christine Sinclair in 2019.
Deodoro da Fonseca
Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the 1st president of Brazil. He took office after heading a military coup that deposed Emperor Pedro II and proclaimed the Republic in 1889, disestablishing the Empire, and stepped down little more than two years later, in 1891, under great political pressure. He is therefore the first Brazilian President to have resigned from office.
Renan Calheiros
José Renan Vasconcelos Calheiros is a Brazilian politician and former President of the Senate of Brazil. He has represented the state of Alagoas in the senate as a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party since 1 February 1995. Renan's presidency of the Brazilian Senate, a term that started 1 February 2013, was revoked on 5 December 2016 by a minister of the Brazilian Supreme Court, Marco Aurélio Mello, who said that a person under investigation could not be in the line of succession for the presidency. However the Supreme Court decided 7 December 2016 that Renan could remain senate president, without being in the succession.
Gilberto Oliveira Souza Junior
Gilberto Oliveira Souza Júnior, simply known as Gilberto, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Brazilian Série A club Bahia.
Willian José
Willian José da Silva, better known as Willian José, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers on loan from Real Sociedad.
Mário Zagallo
Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo is a Lebanese Brazilian former professional football player and manager, who played as a forward.
Mário Sérgio Santos Costa
Mário Sérgio Santos Costa, commonly known as Marinho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Santos as a forward.
Nise da Silveira
Nise da Silveira was a Brazilian psychiatrist and a student of Carl Jung. She devoted her life to psychiatry and never was in agreement with the aggressive forms of treatment of her time such as commitment to psychiatric hospitals, electroshock, insulin therapy and lobotomy.